Huntsville gazette., 1887-11-26
BABY KILLERS.
A Few Sensible Remarks wI the Manage
ment of Little children.

A Few Sensible Remarks wI the Manage
ment of Little children.
1t is not every one sho has baby
that is fit to take care Of It, and the suf-
fering of these poor innocents from the
hands of unskilled mothers and attend
ants is frightful. The root of the
trouble is lack of sympathy in its tender
helplessness, want Of thought, or the
put yourself in ha place" feeling.
Mamma is very proud of baby's first
pair of shoes that his the tiny foot to
perfection. One morning she is in a
hurry and crowds the closely fitting
shoe on the tender &oot, never needing
a sharp cry of pain from the poor littl e
victim, and he Worries all day much to
mammals disgust for she has company
and is very busy, But at night her
heart bleeds, for she finds on taking off
his shoe one of the tender little toes
bent back and broken. Think of the
sufferings Of a grown person going all
day in that condition.
Sometimes the neighbor's little girl
takes baby out for an airipAg, and the
carriage is rushed jolting along with the
hot sun shining in the weak eyes, or the
cap pushed down over the face, and the
baby making frantic efforts to claw
away the obstruction with his fist, and
his careless nurse not seeing any thing
amiss.
Perhaps the child is teething and
feverish, and cries all night, when a
teaspoonful of cool water would set
him off into a refreshing sleep, but the
mother never thinks Of such simple
thing Think of the soothing syrups
that put the little ones to sleep delight
fully, and the terrible after-eflects. And
in the way of food given to nursing
babies, the ignorance and carelessness
of mothers surpasses belief. ''My baby
eats any thing" said a mother, proud
of the fact. Il gave her piece Of mince
pie yesterday. and she ate it like little
trooper. To-day she swallowed a pint
Of whortleberries; you ought to see her
stow them away" All, mother! Baby's
digestion will suddenly fail, then will
come sickness, another little grave
among the myriads in the cemetery,
and a sorrowing household; or if she
survives early childhood invalIdism may
result.
Don't have set of iron rules to gov
ern your babies. Every one needs sep
arate study and different management.
A mother said: ''My first baby liked to
90 to sleep in the dark. After feeding
/ could put him on the bed and he
would drop off to sleep with his thumb
in his mouth, happy and contented
baby. But Freddy. In the first place
he wouldn't sleep unless his head was
over my shoulder, and if [ attempted to
take the light away he would almost
scream himself into convulsiOns.
And do not let an ignorant nurse
frighten sensitive child by bugaboo
stories. What untold suffering is
caused by 1.-The giant in the closet" or
the "big black bear under the bed!"
or the gypsy woman that carries off
naughty children in a big bag" One
little boy had been told by a foolish
nurse girl about the big black bear un-
der the bed. He would awake in the
night in trembling fits of horror. No
words can describe what that poor child
suffered He would awake his mother
with piercing cry. Come, Willv,"
she would say, ''let' S we see;" so, in
stead of trying to assure him by words,
she would light lamp and make him
look carefully under the bed and assure
himself there was no bear there--De-
tyou Tribune.